Former Wolverine Jim Scarcelli joins the show and looks ahead to the Michigan/Michigan State game. Scar also has film analysis of the Michigan/Illinois game.
Breakdown
Open 00:00-5:37
MSU 5:38-13:50
?'s for Sherrone 13:51-27:47
Film analysis Illinois 27:48-1:09:03
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He keeps making these absolute statements, like, "Tuttle's our guy." Just say we're gonna play the players that give us the best chance to win.

I'm totally surprised at how over his head this all appears to be.

On whether he feels that Kalel Mullings got enough touches early in the game

Yeah, I think you can always get him some more touches. And, you know, he had 19 carries. I thought Donovan in the last game played really well and ran the ball well, so going back and forth, and then he had to fumble. So we tried to get Kalel back in the rhythm and probably do a better job doing that. But I thought he ended up having 19 carries. He usually averages around 25. So could have been a little bit early, but we also wanted to take some shots early. And we gotta connect on those.

He still doesn't get that Mullings is the key.

Michigan is vulnerable to historically high offensive outputs from Oregon and OSU this season, which could result in two of the most lopsided defeats in modern history. Furthermore, Coach Day's dislike of Michigan and desire for three years of revenge suggests he will likely continue to run up the score, even with a 60-point advantage even with minute left to play.

Needs to be left in Illinois. If he isn’t fired this weekend it’s inexcusable.

I’m always an optimist and like to see the positive sides of things.

Early in the season, I was willing to give grace with all of the changes. And through the first 4 games, I saw growth each week. Not a lot, but it was there. Against Washington, I thought the growth stopped. And after 2 weeks to prep, sadly we regressed this week. We are now actively moving in the wrong direction.

There are probably a million things to blame. And I’m not one to throw a fit and act like a child, so I’m not going to point blame and pretend I know more than dudes that get paid a lot of money. None of us here are as smart as we think we are, especially sitting behind a computer with zero repercussions to our comments and zero pressure to make good decisions.

But damn if I’m not concerned. Lots of changes need to happen this offseason. I’ll let the guys in charge figure out what needs to happen, but status quo would be overwhelmingly shocking.

Here at Little Caesars Arena for Michigan's exhibition game against Oakland. Tip-off is at 5 p.m. The game will air on B1G+. I'll try and post more updates than normal because I know not everyone will have B1G+

He wants to divide the money evenly between all sports? Which is why NIL for football is lagging?

Elite spot by Brock

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It’ll be interesting to see how the season plays out and what our wins and losses, including hopefully a bowl game. And, what kind of pressure there is on Coach Moore as the season progresses.

1. Legitimate Portal QB (Underwood is NOT coming here)
2. New OC
3. 2 Legitimate WRs in the portal
4. 1 Legitimate DT in the portal
5. New DC (although I think Wink will leave on his own).

Of course, success in 1, 3 and 4 will require not only legitimate NIL (which we don't have) and a player wanting to come to UM to play with potentially lesser talent.

What do others think?

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Yes there’s some technical failures going on. Morgan, Campbell and Moore are all struggling mightily IMO.

But my sense on 9/12 remains:


The weight of this post football panacea identity crisis is massive and really hard to turn around mentally/chemistry/identity wise.

So much goes into great football and very little of it is easy.

The weight of the world, and or previous perfection is on this staff and kids shoulders and that’s a tough context to perform in - let alone come back in.

Who do you think plays, Orji or Warren?

Moore had no good option, but not sticking with Warren was a huge mistake.

I agree that he should have been benched for the AK St game, but naming Orji the starter was an overreaction.

Musical chairs with the QBs have been a disaster.
We should have stayed with the younger guy and tried to develop him.

We are seeing a staff that has overthought themselves into two out of three losses that should have never happened.

The formula is Mullings and some complimentary passing, but these guys just refuse to do the obvious.